123tim
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This is sort of long....would you please mind reading to help me out? We've had a visit by child services because we haven't made a doctors appointment for our newborn baby and we need your advice.
The story:
Last Thursday we had our second baby (a boy).
Things went very well and we requested that we leave the next day after the delivery which we did.
The baby is very healthy, just like our first, and we planned to schedule a checkup for him next week.
I was surprised to find a recording on our answering machine the day that we came home saying that we had to schedule an appointment for that Monday (three days after birth!) We didn't go because we felt that the baby was healthy and it would be worse to take him an hour away in the rain to a doctors office contaminated with sickness (we're having an R.S.V. outbreak here.)
Today we had a phone call from a very pushy (Nurse?) who asked when we were going to schedule a follow up visit. She was speechless when we told her that the baby was healthy and that we would schedule an appointment at our convenience (next week) when we felt that the baby was ready. We were very polite (we always are) but firm and the nurse was obviously irritated.
About two hours later we had a woman from child services come to our door who asked to see the baby. My wife said that she couldn't because the baby was upstairs sleeping. My wife then asked her what authority she was acting upon. She said that she didn't know and that she would go back to work to check. She then said that she would send us an email to us stating what she found. She also said that she might have to get a court order to see the baby. The Child Services woman said that we could Google "Child protective services" and "Law" to find out what our rights were.
Does anyone have any advice on where we stand on this? I greatly need your help and advice.
Thank you in advance.
The story:
Last Thursday we had our second baby (a boy).
Things went very well and we requested that we leave the next day after the delivery which we did.
The baby is very healthy, just like our first, and we planned to schedule a checkup for him next week.
I was surprised to find a recording on our answering machine the day that we came home saying that we had to schedule an appointment for that Monday (three days after birth!) We didn't go because we felt that the baby was healthy and it would be worse to take him an hour away in the rain to a doctors office contaminated with sickness (we're having an R.S.V. outbreak here.)
Today we had a phone call from a very pushy (Nurse?) who asked when we were going to schedule a follow up visit. She was speechless when we told her that the baby was healthy and that we would schedule an appointment at our convenience (next week) when we felt that the baby was ready. We were very polite (we always are) but firm and the nurse was obviously irritated.
About two hours later we had a woman from child services come to our door who asked to see the baby. My wife said that she couldn't because the baby was upstairs sleeping. My wife then asked her what authority she was acting upon. She said that she didn't know and that she would go back to work to check. She then said that she would send us an email to us stating what she found. She also said that she might have to get a court order to see the baby. The Child Services woman said that we could Google "Child protective services" and "Law" to find out what our rights were.
Does anyone have any advice on where we stand on this? I greatly need your help and advice.
Thank you in advance.
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